The Mountain Ridge Mountain Lions will be staying on the road on Tuesday to face off against the Desert Vista Thunder at 4:00 p.m. Mountain Ridge is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.9 runs per game this season.
Mountain Ridge's hitters might be in the hot seat on Tuesday considering what happened against Queen Creek on Saturday. They lost 8-0 to the Bulldogs. The loss continues a trend for Mountain Ridge in their matchups with Queen Creek: they've now lost three in a row.
Meanwhile, Desert Vista faced O'Connor in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Saturday. Desert Vista fell just short of O'Connor by a score of 10-8. Desert Vista's defeat signaled the end of their eight-game winning streak.
Ava Briski was cooking despite her team's loss, going 2-for-3 with a home run, three RBI, and two runs. The team also got some help courtesy of Jaymie Larney, who went 2-for-4 with a home run.
Mountain Ridge's loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 17-13. As for Desert Vista, their defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 23-8.
Fans could be in store for some top-tier slugging on Tuesday. Mountain Ridge hasn't had any problems when it comes to power this season, having averaged 0.8 home runs per game. However, it's not like Desert Vista struggles in that department as they've been averaging 0.9. With so much power on both teams, it'll be down to the pitchers to keep the mound locked down.
Mountain Ridge came up short against Desert Vista in their previous matchup back in March, falling 8-3. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Desert Vista's Thailee Jones, who pitched four innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off three hits. Now that Mountain Ridge knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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